[Dovecot] dsync mbox->mdbox: Unexpectedly lost From-line and other issues from a big conversion.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 12:01 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:

> I checked the files and the mentioned offsets are one line off the next
> from_ line. It looks like a content-length mismatch.
> 
> They also seem to mix CR+LF and simple LF endings within the same mail.
> For example an otherwise CR+LF encoded mail would have a few headers w/o
> CR at the bottom inserted (by dovecot?). Maybe the content-length
> computation was therefore a few lines off.
> 
> I can probably salvage these mboxes by grepping out the content-length
> header, but I wonder why the content-length header are off.

Oh, didn't read this message before replying / checking the files :)
Yeah, you're right. It's the combination of CRLF + wrong Content-Length:
headers. Normally broken Content-Length: value is detected and fixed,
but I guess there's a bug with CRLF line feeds.